The lore is that IBM punch cards were used by the Nazi regimes' storing data about slave labor and death camp personnel and detainees.
It seems likely. By the number on detainee arms, and the blood type under the left arm pit of those with control. Simple data, match it to the persons.
Now, Microsoft Azure is showing up in the Palestinians and Israeli news matters; here and here.
Bottom line seems to be a data tool indiscriminately for sale, same pricing to all, whatever flavor you savor.
It seems hunker in the bunker, say we'll look into that with a study committee, and wait for the storm to pass. Not that such an outlook is unique to Microsoft's management.
Microsoft is a big company with reasonably steady personnel turnover for multiple possible or actual reasons. Competence, job performance, almost always a deciding factor?
Ask Copilot about current events.
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https://indianexpress.com/article/world/arrest-microsoft-headquarters-protest-israel-ties-10201914/
The story is the same, first an AP carry about a continued day of M$ protests, this time with 18 arrested.
The line through the second item? Fucking subscription wall blanks out the story. From the other side of the world, with a tech industry, read of the situation for free.
Yes, they have the right to do that with walling off access. And, yes, I have the right to bitch about it.
M$ seemingly will not curb sales for a valid moral reason.
Yes, they have the right to sell to war criminals.
Yes, I have the right to bitch about it.